Washington Notebook: CBP updates

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

U.S.-EU fully implement trusted trader reciprocity. U.S. Customs and Border Protection recently announced that mutual recognition between its Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program and the European Union's Authorized Economic Operator program was fully implemented Jan. 31. The arrangement is designed to give expedited security status to shippers that belong to one of the trusted shipper programs and have demonstrated to local authorities that they have effective security plans in place throughout their supply chains. Once CBP does a side-by-side comparison of other trusted trader programs and accepts another customs authority's practices as meeting its requirements it can accept security reviews of companies in those c...